Join us for our last Portobello Road event for 2011 on Sunday 14th August.  Hunt out that unique collectable, small antiques, crystal and china, retro decorative arts, collectable books and maps, linen and lace, antique jewellery and other curios.

Antique and collectables dealers from around the region come to offer the old and the unique!

Visit the markets on Sunday July 17th and you’ll see a side of Canberra that is brimming with textile artists, who weave, design and make knitted garments, embroider, hand dye fabrics and yarns, make lace, and handfelt accessories or homewares.

You’ll be able to speak to artists about their textile speciality and learn about the processes involved.

ANU School of Arts, Textile Design and the ACT Textiles Art Association will all be on hand along with Canberra Regional Guilds who will do demonstrations on the day and be available to answer questions.

On Sunday 19 June, the Old Bus Depot Markets play host to Kids in the Shed, a day for the very young.

Spoil your littlies at the large number of stalls catering for children, their rooms and their play. There will be beautifully handcrafted toys, creative artworks for kids’ rooms, handcarved wooden toys, local designers making children’s clothes, doll’s houses, fun bedding for kids, music, and all sorts of specialist gear for newborns.

Entertainment will be provided for the young ones – always much fun and noisy!

Winter is on the way and there is no better way to warm your body and your soul than with Wool. Hand felted garments and accessories, designer knitwear, millinery, weavings, funky beanies and farm label knitwear it’s all being featured at our upcoming Wool day at the Old Bus Depot Market.

In this its 16th year, you’ll get the chance to see some old favourites and meet some new Woolly friends as Craftspeople who work with wool join us from as far afield as Victoria, South Australia and close to home in regional NSW.

Chat with a member of a regional guild, watch demonstrations of hand spinning, hand felting, and other traditional wool based crafts. For the curious, adventurous and the well experienced woollies among us, a Celebration of Wool is a great way to spend a day at the markets (And there are definitely no prickly jumpers in sight!).